Blackadder to return

[Anarcho-Socialist]

'Blackadder' to return
Monday, April 18 2005, 12:33 BST -- by Daniel Saney

BBC comedy Blackadder will return for its fifth series next year.

Seventeen years after the emotional climax of 1989's Blackadder Goes Forth, Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson will reprise their roles as Blackadder and Baldrick.

Writer Richard Curtis told the Daily Express of the show's return: "We'd always said we'd do it, and yes we definitely still want to."


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20727.html

Blackadder to make a return

Classic BBC comedy Blackadder is set to return to television screens for the fifth time next year, years after the last series ended with the deaths of its lead characters.

Actor Rowan Atkinson will return as the acerbic Captain Edmund Blackadder in the eagerly-awaited episodes, which are due to be screened in early 2006.

Scriptwriter Richard Curtis plans to get around the inconvenience of having killed off his characters by revealing they'd actually survived the enemy fire which ended the First World War-set Blackadder Goes Forth, which first screened in 1989.

Tony Robinson, who played Blackadder's servant Baldrick, will also return.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=140271610&p=y4xz7z3y6

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I'm pleased as I love Blackadder. I hope it's as good as Blackadder 2, 3 and 4. :)

[Teaser]

1. They have a cunning plan.

Finish the quote:

"Baldrick, you wouldn't know a cunning plan if..."

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. OK

"...it sat on your face and wiggled a bit while singing 'I am cunning plan short and stout ... here is my handle here is my spout.'"

[ltfranklin]

2. "inconvenience of having killed off his characters"?

Since when did that ever inconvenience the continuance of the series?

Personally, I'd like to see Blackadder as a politician, maybe PM? Of course, they'd be stepping on "Yes, Minister"'s territory.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. Blackadder as the British Ambassador to the US

Featuring an incredibly stupid President from Texas


Hmmm... Can Hugh Laurie do a good *?

[ltfranklin]

10. Yes, Yes, YES!

Blackadder...the last hope of a hopeless world!

God help us all!

[Huckebein the Raven]

3. Can't wait

[MrPrax]

4. I hope it's not like 'Goes Forth'

I thought the fourth installment was the weakest of the series--it would be nice if they dispensed with the military theme entirely and had a BlackAdder 'heir' become a Media Mogul or something...

I always thought Blackadder Christmas Carol was brilliant--a hip Yes Minister thing might be good...

[sleipnir]

12. But the most pointed in my opinion.

It touched on the loss of many British males during the Great War, at a time when such things were being lost due to age, apathy and death. Now, the war was facing a three generational gap, and I feel the episode did much to remind the world of the sacrifices of the greed of empire and the true loss, thus horror of war.

The end was one of the most harsh, yet pointed I have seen in a comic series.

[kodi]

13. yes, it was. such a god-awful loss of life. best to remember those things

the end was stunning. no humor. just the excruciating realization of the slaughter of those times.

[MrPrax]

15. You make a good point...

Let's face it--the whole series together, even it's weaker episodes--have more laffs and brains than hundreds of sitcoms.

Blackadder Three was pretty funny though and 'touched' on the British monarchy and class--often ruthlessly. The 'Prince Regent' purposely reminds you of another 'idiot' in line to the Throne.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. They always claimed that for the final series they'd be a rock band

and Baldrick would be Bald Rick. But if they're thinking about the effects of their deaths at the end of Goes Forth, maybe they have something else in mind. Hmmm.

[TheMightyFavog]

8. With Edmund as the group's sleazy manager?

I like it.

[elshiva]

7. WOO HOO! Yes!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Yippee!

I love Blackadder! I hope it will eventually air on PBS.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

14. kick for the insomniacs

:kick:

[bikebloke]

16. Looks like a DVD purchase a ways in the future

The charactors have been killed off at the conclusions of the previous series (1 & 2), so why not. Unless they're planning the latest to take place during the great War again. Or they could tie it in with Blackadder Back and Forth. Time travel would lend some flexibility.

I've been nursing the series out, so haven't seen Goes Forth and Back & Forth.